Friday, June 06, 2014

According to Vice
several cable companies have been caught Astroturfing by funding
various groups that are designed to represent consumers, but are
actually cable companies paying outside companies to support their
agenda. A few examples are Broadband of America, which is supposed to be
a coalition of independent advocacy groups and includes senator John
Sununu among their members, is funded a big cable lobbyist NCTA. Another
group called American Consumer Institute which is another anti-net
neutrality voice of “the people” receives the majority of their funding
by the CTIA, which represents the wireless industry. When you find out
that most of the voices against Net Neutrality are in fact funded by the
cable industry it doesn’t say much about your stance and enforces why
everyone but ISP’s are against the proposed changes.